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Domaine de la Romanée Conti, Montrachet Grand Cru 1999
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Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
The 1999 Montrachet is always a bit edgy, which keeps it from entering the realm of the truly sublime. Even so, the best examples, such as this one, show terrific freshness as well as persistence. Overall, the 1999 is a quiet wine, with a little less of everything relative to the finest years. Tasted at the DRC Montrachet charity event in New York.
Reviewed by: Pierre Rovani
The 1999 Montrachet Grand Cru from the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti is drinking very well today, offering up a characteristically super-ripe bouquet of honeyed peaches, orchard fruit and marmalade mingled with notions of white flowers and baking spices. Full-bodied, broad and unctuous, with a thickly textural attack and an ample, fat mid-palate, its lavish endowment of sweet, sun-kissed fruit is underpinned by ripe acids. There's no reason to defer gratification.
About the Producer
The Domaine de la Romanée-Conti or DRC is one of the most prestigious wine estates in the world with 25.5 hectares mostly in Vosne-Romanée on the route des Grands Crus in the vineyards of the Côte de Nuits of the Burgundy vineyards (named after the 1.8 hectare Clos de la Romanée-Conti, one of the most prestigious mythical grands crus in the world). The civil company of the same name was founded in 1942 by Edmond Gaudin de Villaine. It is now co-managed for their heir family by the winegrowers Aubert de Villaine and Perrine Fenal.
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